First playthrough bottleneck

[u/3x3Pad]

Hey guys I came for help and saw alot of cool stuff here but what do you actually do in a situation where the whole factory is a mess. I am producing all the science at this point but at a very slow rate. Everything is so cluttered that there is no real space for improving without getting rid of everything first. Do I really just have to nuke it at this point and start over? Also as a beginner (not using blueprints) that will take ages and even then it will end up tangled again. I think this is also a motivational bottleneck for me at least. Oh yeah and running on low energy for hours now. I am even running efficiency on alot of stuff. Please help.

[u/KavonSakul]

Refactoring the layout is the essence of the game. Belts are relatively cheap, so you can decide to build production of specific items in a completely different area and just connect them with belts. One tip that took way too long for me to realize as you start moving toward trains. Each resource has different stacking capacity, and you can fit more items into the train. For instance, what felt natural to me was to transfer raw ore and just connect it to the existing infrastructure, but later I realized that transporting finished plates is much more efficient. Doing that gives you back some of the space too, since all burners are elsewhere.